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Yossi Fendel, pictured in his home on April 10, 2024, and the Deborah Project are suing Berkeley Unified School District . (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Berkeley dad sues school district for access to ethnic studies curriculum

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 10, 2024April 10, 2024
UC Berkeley law professor Catherine Fisk attempts to get law student Malak Afaneh to leave the home Fisk shares with her husband, Berkeley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky, on April 9, 2024. (Screenshot via Instagram)
Posted inBay Area

Anti-Israel protester disrupts Berkeley law dean’s backyard dinner, refuses to leave

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 10, 2024April 15, 2024
Zehava Dahan behind place settings for relatives of her best friend in Israel who were taken hostage by Hamas, part of a public Shabbat dinner-themed installation in front of San Francisco City Hall, Nov. 10, 2023. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inIsrael

Hamas says it cannot produce total of 40 hostages needed to meet criteria for cease-fire deal

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz April 10, 2024
19-year-old Blaze Bernstein, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, was murdered in January 2018. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Bernstein family)
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Defense admits Blaze Bernstein’s ‘unlawful killing’ in first day of long-awaited trial

Louis Keene by Louis Keene April 10, 2024April 10, 2024
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn blows the shofar at the "Jewish Climate Action, Hear The Call Senator Schumer" event in New York City on September 12, 2021. (Photo/Jemal Countess for Getty-Courtesy Dayenu)
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Union for Reform Judaism pledges to divest millions from fossil fuel industry

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev April 10, 2024April 10, 2024
Blaze Bernstein (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Jeanne Pepper)
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Trial set to begin in Blaze Bernstein murder case dominated by questions of antisemitism and homophobia

Louis Keene by Louis Keene April 9, 2024
Yael Nidan Kirsht holds a poster of her brother-in-law, Yagev Buchshtab, one of the hostages held in Gaza, at a vigil commemorating six months since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel in Lafayette on Sunday, April 7, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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East Bay overpass vigil brings attention to hostages at 6-month mark

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 8, 2024April 12, 2024
Gavin Newsom meets with a Californian survivor of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in October. (Courtesy office of the Governor)
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Gov. Newsom unveils post-Oct. 7 plan to combat antisemitism in California

by Dan Pine April 8, 2024April 12, 2024
A shelf of Passover food at Community Market after Israeli products had been removed from display. (Photo/Courtesy 
Danielle Feldman)
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Israeli products put back on shelves at North Bay market after outcry

by Dan Pine April 8, 2024April 8, 2024
Yehuda Kurtzer (left), president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, speaks alongside Ken Bamberger, a Cal law professor and faculty co-director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, at UC Berkeley on April 4. (Photo/Courtesy Laura Turbow)
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American Judaism’s ‘golden age’ isn’t over yet, says Yehuda Kurtzer at UC Berkeley

by Sue Fishkoff April 8, 2024April 8, 2024

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